We are the first fund that invests in core-level infrastructure of the new generation economy.
It cut commissions in the 1970s when others were raising them, offered one of the first mutual fund supermarkets in the 1980s and discount online trading a decade later.
But recently, Pioneer Investments, an American fund-management firm, opened the first mutual fund to give individuals exposure.
"It is too early to offshore a new industry before it is born, " says Andrew Grove, an Intel Corp. founder and one of the first to fund stem-cell study despite the feds' ban.
"It is too early to offshore a new industry before it is born, " says Andrew Grove, an Intel Corp. (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) founder and one of the first to fund stem-cell study despite the feds' ban.
He had been through this in the 1970s when Vanguard launched the first index fund.
Alfred Winslow Jones is widely credited with founding the first hedge fund, in 1949.
Indeed, we could in fact call him one of the first hedge fund managers.
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It was the first index fund provider and they remain the largest.
The first big fund to outsource was PIMCO back around 2000, said Pete Cherecwich, head of global fund services business unit at Northern Trust.
In 2007, Brown Rudnick became an investor in the first Seedcamp fund (www.seedcamp.com) and I became heavily involved with that process, currently serving as a legal advisor to Seedcamp on selected issues and as a member of its Advisory Board.
The ratio is in a long-term uptrend, line c, and a drop below the August lows would be the first sign that the fund was losing some of its leadership.
Called the CQS Rig Finance Fund, it's the world's first fund that invests in bonds sold by companies--many of them Norwegian--to build and upgrade offshore oil rigs.
The most important factor is to think about why you bought the mutual fund in the first place.
The project is the first time the Big Lottery Fund has joined together with another funding source - the European Social Fund.
In Asia ETFs were stimulated by the successful launch of the region's first, the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong (Trakhk), in November 1999.
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The financing package that the Cardinals put together to fund the first phase of its project reflects the tough economic climate that such projects face even as credit has become more accessible recently for real estate with proven rent streams.
Mr. Peng, who used to run Merrill Lynch's property investments in China, closed the first part of his fund in the third quarter of last year, raising one billion yuan from domestic investors, and plans to have invested three billion yuan by the middle of next year.
After finishing the last claim, Kenneth Feinberg, the special master appointed by John Ashcroft, the attorney-general, to run the fund, took a five-day, transcontinental rail trip, his first break since the fund began.
This should accelerate innovation in the Bay Area first, but the Fund aims to create models that allow others around the country to replicate what is working.
Brazil was one of the first to successfully scrap the old Washington Consensus model of debt service and budget cuts, paying off its loans with the International Monetary Fund in the first few years of the Lula presidency.
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Ms Davidson said the 67p rent rise was needed to help fund the first phase of the building programme.
Another fund targeting such small European companies is the First Eagle SoGen Overseas fund ( SGOIX) , managed by Charles de Vaulx and Jean-Marie Eveillard.
The first BNP Paribas hedge fund center, opened at the London Business School (LBS) in 2001, examines investment strategies, while a second institution, opened at the Singapore Management University last year, looks at Asian funds.
Calpers said its rewritten investment criteria make it the first public pension fund to look beyond traditional economic factors.
He invested in burgeoning overseas economies long before it was fashionable, launching the first emerging markets fund available to U.S. investors in 1954.
Gill and Clare Rabjohns hope to be the first to donate to the restoration fund when they finish their epic walk on Friday.
We launched the first phase of the Social Innovation Fund Knowledge Network, a web-based vehicle for facilitating dialogue, exchanging information, and posting documents among grantees.
Last month, the Louisiana sheriffs public pension fund became the first in the nation to adopt such an approach in the form of a terror-free investment policy.
The attorneys said Zimmerman did tell his lawyers about the funds five days after the bail hearing, during his first conversation about the fund.
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